Emy Bernecoli is an Italian violinist who, in recent years, has become well known in the musical world for her dedication to the Italian musical heritage of the last century.

She made her recording debut with the international label Naxos in 2013 and to date she has made three CDs entirely devoted to three Italian composers of the 20th century: Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli and Ottorino Respighi. She recorded the complete works for violin and piano of these composers and in particular those of Ghedini and Pick-Mangiagalli were their world premiere recording. Her CDs were highly acclaimed by the music press at a national (Musica, Amadeus) and international (Gramophone, The Strad, Ritmo, American Record Guide, BBC Music Magazine) level and led to her nomination for the International Classical Music Awards in 2014 and 2016, and the Land Mark Recording in 2017. Her last CD is dedicated to the complete works for violin and piano of Alfredo Casella for label Concerto Classics.

Her dedication to chamber music has allowed her to build up a vast repertoire over the years that includes all the most significant works for violin and piano. She has also had wide experience with other chamber groups such as the string quartet and quintet in the role of both first and second violin, and has played in piano trios with such renowned artists as Rocco Filippini, Luca Simoncini, Luca Morassutti (Quartetto di Venezia) Mauro Maur, Claudi Arimany, Floraleda Sacchi, Christophe Pantillon (Aron Quartett) and the Nuovo Quartetto Italiano.

She has been a Professor of violin and chamber music at the Conservatory of music ”F.Torrefranca” in Vibo Valentia from 2016 to 2018 and concertmaster of the Orchestra Sinfonica Torrefranca.

She is now Professor of violin at the Conservatory of music ”G.F.Ghedini” in Cuneo.

She has worked with some of the most important Italian orchestras such as the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence (first violini-third chair), the ’Orchestra del Teatro Lirico ‘G. Verdi’ in Trieste, the Orchestra del Conservatorio di Musica Cherubini in Florence (leader of first violins), the Orchestras of the Teatri lirici in Pisa, Lucca and Livorno (sub-principal first violin), the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma, the Orchestra da Camera in Mantua, the Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale in Bologna and the Orchestra dell’ Arena in Verona (leader of second violins). She has tackled both the symphonic and opera repertories in equal measure, including numerous works by contemporary composers, and has played under the baton of Zubin Metha, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Baremboim, Anton Reck, Enrico Dindo, Isaak Karabtkewsky, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tan Dun e Gábor Takács-Nagy.

She has been guest of various radio programmes and has broadcast live concerts for the series ‘La stanza della musica’ on RaiRadio3, for the RSI (Radio Svizzera Italiana), Radio Diva, Delta Radio, IMD music and web, and Radio Vaticana.

She gained an Academic Diploma in music studies obtaining maximum marks with distinction for her thesis on Paganini’s ‘Le Streghe’. She specialized in early music with Alfonso Fedi in Florence, and for several years performed as a soloist and leader with various Italian Baroque ensembles.

She studied with Pavel Vernikov and Mariana Sirbu, and then in 2006 she gained a diploma at the Accademia di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale ‘R. Romanini’ in Brescia with Domenico Nordio, focusing on the soloist repertoire.

She consolidated her experience in chamber music by studying with members of the Quartetto di Venezia and of the Nuovo Quartetto Italiano, as well as with Istvan Parkanyi, first violin of the celebrated Orlando Quartet, and with Gunter Pichler, first violin of the Alban Berg Quartett.

In 2010 she gained a diploma in chamber music with maximum marks at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Rocco Filippini and at the Accademia Musicale in Florence with Alessandro Specchi.

Her unique style of interpretation stems from her well rounded personality: an artist able to offer a finely balanced blend of tradition and interpretative freshness, romanticism and rhythmic rigor, cantabile and technical energy, Emy Bernecoli remains a performer with her feet set firmly in the past but with her gaze always turned to the future.

She plays two Italian violins, a 2017 Luca Mazzetti (Otello Bignami School) and a 1966 Giovanni Pallaver, defined by The Strad as splendid.